Single level turbulence measurements to determine roughness parameters of complex terrain

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Toda, Motomu ^a   Sugita, Michiaki ^b  

^a JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complex terrain; Roughness length; Single level turbulent measurement; Variance method; Zero plane displacement

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPLEX TERRAIN; EDDY COVARIANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0942267371     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002573     Document Type: Article

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